For all of those who have seen my preview in my previous story, the long awaited story that I have been leaking is finally beginning. Now, what probably might be over 20 chapters begins.
With Great Discovery, Comes Great Destruction
Prologue
"Dr. Simons?" a portly man dressed in a white lab coat, blue shirt and beige tacky pants. The bald man entered a room filled with a cornucopia of equipment and computers. "Dr. Simons where are you?"
"Over here Ben," Dr. Simons called from the other side of the room, his skinny body covered in grease as he fumbled with several wires connecting to a large tank. Dr. Simons was a skinny man with a large flowing hairdo and sported a similar outfit to Ben's.
"Dr. Simons; what are you still doing here?" Ben asked striding toward the dirty scientist.
"Making history," Dr. Simons stated confidently.
"How about you make history tomorrow instead of trapping yourself here with the janitors?" Ben asked humorously.
"Science does not wait for anyone my friend," the scientist replied as he rearranged several wire and pressed several buttons on a panel attached to the tank. "I will go down in history."
"Oh please…" Ben murmured.
"There!" Dr. Simons than put the wires back in the hold and placed a covering over it. He then pressed a button and turned a dial, which caused the machine to hum and light inside the tank. He then pressed a button and the tank slid open halfway. He then grabbed a black rock on a table nearby and placed it in the center of the tank. He then pressed a button, causing the tank's container to slide back closed.
"What are you doing?" Ben inquired, rubbing his chin.
"I…am making something that will make the whole world a better place," Dr. Simons explained.
"Oh a portable oven?" Ben asked, half sarcastic and half serious. Dr Simons gave Ben a piercing look and quickly turned back his attention to the tank. He pressed a small button, causing the machine to hum again and light up around the rim of the top and bottom. Then, there was gas entering the tank from the floor of the container, causing the rock to vibrate violently.
"C'mon…" Dr. Simons' whispered hopefully. The rock then melted into a substance that began to float in the middle of the tank, growing in mass. It spun around and around, growing larger and larger. Then, the black substance stopped and froze in the middle of the air.
"What is it?"
"This is a substance found by John Jameson on an asteroid and has qualities that are similar to that of nuclear energy but without the radioactivity. By using this tank to accelerate it's natural changes into a substance. That slimy substance has the ability to absorb very little energy and produce even more energy at an incredibly massive rate."
"That's amazing, you were right, this could change the world!" Ben gasped, staring at the black goo in awe.
"It also has amazing medicinal properties. My scans have shown a property that can enter a beings DNA and activate a healing gene, causing cells to be supercharged and heal damage far beyond what we could invent in a hundred years," Dr. Simons explained as he pressed yet another button, shutting off the tank and making the black goo to withdraw and form into the previous black rock.
"So, when are you going to present this?" Ben asked, turning around and heading toward the exit.
Dr. Simons quickly followed suit while saying, "I'll have a press conference tomorrow and then I'll schedule a presentation." As he approached the exit, he could have sworn he head a small screech, but shrugged the thought away and flipped a switch, turning off the lights and followed Ben out of the room.